Charles E
Biographic Data
| ID | 3439090 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles E |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Charles |
| SIGNATURE | E C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5770-3087 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Body stakes: An existential ethics of care in living with biometrics and AI
This article discusses the key existential stakes of implementing biometrics in human lifeworlds. In this pursuit, we offer a problematization and reinvention of central values often taken for granted within the “ethical turn” of AI development and discourse, such as autonomy, agency, privacy and integrity, as we revisit basic questions about what it means to be human and embodied. Within a framework of existential media studies, we introduce an …
Virtues, Robots, and Good Lives: Who Cares?
I take up a Virtue Ethics, a "more than human" Care Ethics, relational autonomy, and ethical pluralism to address four problems: (1) developing an Intercultural Information Ethics that avoids both ethical relativism and computer-mediated colonization; (2) preserving democratic polity, norms, and emancipatory imperatives alongside posthumanism; (3) overcoming master-slave relationships with sexbots; (4) overcoming risks of ethical deskilling, of u…
Toward an Existential and Emancipatory Ethic of Technology
The Epic of Gilgamesh introduces existential themes of confronting our mortality and creating meaningful lives as embodied beings and relational autonomies. These entail care ethics, virtue ethics, deontological emphases on respect and equality, and overcoming destructive dualisms (mind/body, male/female, (human) nature/technology). The philosophical and theological origins of modern technology and the Enlightenment extend these starting points b…
Employers’ and applicants’ fairness perceptions in job interviews: Using a teleoperated robot as a fair proxy
This research examines the perceived fairness of two types of job interviews: robot-mediated and face-to-face interviews. The robot-mediated interview tests the concept of a fair proxy in the shape of a teleoperated social robot. In Study 1, a mini-public (n=53) revealed four factors that influence fairness perceptions of the robot-mediated interview and showed how HR professionals’ perception of fair personnel selection is influenced by moral pr…
Social Robotics and the Good Life: The Normative Side of Forming Emotional Bonds With Robots
Robots as social companions in close proximity to humans have a strong potential of becoming more and more prevalent in the coming years, especially in the realms of elder day care, child rearing, and education. As human beings, we have the fascinating ability to emotionally bond with various counterparts, not exclusively with other human beings, but also with animals, plants, and sometimes even objects. Therefore, we need to answer the fundament…
Theoretical and Practical Research Ethics: Three Cases
AoIR and the Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society (JICES) share common interests in critical reflection on the ethical and social dimensions of the internet and internet-facilitated communication, and have begun a collaboration aimed at collecting ethically-focused AoIR conference submissions for presentation and critique at AoIR, with a view towards subsequent publication in a special issue of JICES. This panel collects th…
Legal and Ethical Perspectives on (Big) Data, Platforms, Ai and Algorithms
AoIR and the Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society (JICES) share common interests in critical reflection on the ethical and social dimensions of the internet and internet-facilitated communication, and have begun a collaboration aimed at collecting ethically-focused AoIR conference submissions for presentation and critique at AoIR, with a view towards subsequent publication in a special issue of JICES. This panel collects fo…
The University of We: Value-Sensitive Design for an Ethical University
In this article, the authors propose the ethical university may be manifested as the University of We: a university of character and care. We define the ethical university as a “value-sensitive design” that encapsulates and promotes certain virtues, values, habits of mind and practices while prohibiting and suppressing others. By combining value-sensitive design, with Aristotelian phronēsis, care ethics and the ethical demand of K.E. Løgstrup, we…
Interpretative Pros Hen Pluralism: From Computer-Mediated Colonization to a Pluralistic Intercultural Digital Ethics
Intercultural Digital Ethics (IDE) faces the central challenge of how to develop a global IDE that can endorse and defend some set of (quasi-) universal ethical norms, principles, frameworks, etc. alongside sustaining local, culturally variable identities, traditions, practices, norms, and so on. I explicate interpretive pros hen (focal or “towards one”) ethical pluralism (EP(ph)) emerging in the late 1990s and into the twenty-first century in re…
Digital Media Ethics
Digital Media Ethics
Since the early 2000s, Digital Media Ethics (DME) has emerged as a relatively stable subdomain of applied ethics. DME seeks nothing less than to address the ethical issues evoked by computing technologies and digital media more broadly, such as cameras, mobile and smartphones, GPS navigation systems, biometric health monitoring devices, and, eventually, “the Internet of things,” as these have developed and diffused into more or less every corner …
Communication and technology
I introduce this double issue, showing first how the articles conjoin global perspectives with fine-grained attention to specific communication venues vis-à-vis critical theory, politics, religion, children and youth, mobile technologies, and ICT4D. Our contributors further argue against technological determinism in multiple ways, offering instead far more sophisticated understandings of how technology, material factors, and diverse ethical, soci…
Internet Research Ethics
This anthology addresses ethical challenges that arise within the field of Internet research. Among the issues discussed in the book are the following: When is voluntary informed consent from research subjects required in using the Internet as a data source? How may researchers secure the privacy of research subjects in a landscape where the traditional public/private distinction is blurred and re-identification is a recurring threat? What are th…
Internet Research Ethics
This anthology addresses ethical challenges that arise within the field of Internet research. Among the issues discussed in the book are the following: When is voluntary informed consent from research subjects required in using the Internet as a data source? How may researchers secure the privacy of research subjects in a landscape where the traditional public/private distinction is blurred and re-identification is a recurring threat? What are th…
Can we say anything ethical about Digital Religion? Philosophical and methodological considerations
Against the background of growing interest in normative frameworks within Media and Communication Studies and Internet Studies, I propose a virtue ethics framework for Digital Religion (DR). This framework conjoins loving as a virtue with consequent norms of equality and respect for persons. By understanding selfhood in terms of relational autonomy, this framework shares with DR a central focus on identity, community, and authority. Two applicati…
Special Issue of IJSR on Social Robots: Form, Content, Critique
The Onlife Initiative—a Concept Reengineering Exercise
Internet Studies: Perspectives on a rapidly developing field
The genealogy of this special issue begins in the fall of 2009, with a panel organized by Mia Consalvo and Charles Ess for the annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 8 October. The panel was constituted by a selected set of contributors to The Handbook of Internet Studies (Consalvo and Ess, 2011). The presentations and ensuing discussion, joined by contributors to another synthesis effo…
Ethics and the Media: An Introduction
I highlight important elements of the volume, its context in digital ethics more broadly, and contributions to both journalism ethics as such and digital ethics as an emerging field
At the Intersections Between Internet Studies and Philosophy: “Who Am I Online?”
Trust and virtual worlds: Contemporary perspectives
We collect diverse philosophical analyses of the issues and problems clustering around trust online with specific attention to establishing trust in virtual environments. The book moves forward important discussions of how virtual worlds and virtuality are to be defined and understood; the role of embodiment in establishing trust in (primarily) disembodied venues; how far artificial agents and other forms of machine intelligence can be trusted in…
Trust and New Communication Technologies: Vicious Circles, Virtuous Circles, Possible Futures
Internet research ethics and the institutional review board: Current Practices and Issues
The Internet has been used as a place for and site of an array of research activities. From online ethnographies to public data sets and online surveys, researchers and research regulators have struggled with an array of ethical issues around the conduct of online research. This paper presents a discussion and findings from Buchanan and Ess's study on US-based institutional review boards and the state of internet research ethics
Floridi's Philosophy of Information and Information Ethics: Current Perspectives, Future Directions
In order to evaluate Floridi's philosophy of information (PI) and correlative information ethics (IE) as potential frameworks for a global information and computing ethics (ICE), I review a range of important criticisms, defenses, and extensions of PI and IE, along with Floridi's responses to these, as gathered together in a recent special issue of Ethics and Information Technology. A revised and expanded version of PI and IE emerges here, one th…
Information Technology Ethics: Cultural Perspectives
"This book is the first publication that takes a genuinely global approach to the diverse ethical issues evoked by Information and Communication Technologies and their possible resolutions. Readers will gain a greater appreciation for the problems and possibilities of genuinely global information ethics, which are urgently needed as information and communication technologies continue their exponential growth"--Provided by publisher
Internet Studies: Perspectives on a rapidly developing field
The genealogy of this special issue begins in the fall of 2009, with a panel organized by Mia Consalvo and Charles Ess for the annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 8 October. The panel was constituted by a selected set of contributors to The Handbook of Internet Studies (Consalvo and Ess, 2011). The presentations and ensuing discussion, joined by contributors to another synthesis effo…
Culture and Computer-Mediated Communication: Toward New Understandings
This collection of articles was originally inspired by several presentations at CATaC'041 and subsequent critical discussion of their use of the frameworks for cultural analyses developed by Edward T. Hall (1966, 1976) and Gert Hofstede (e.g., 1980, 1991). In response to these presentations and discussion, we developed this special thematic section for the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Religion and Computer-Mediated Communication
Previous research on religion and CMC has focused primarily on Christianity and the Western world. The articles collected in this special theme section of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication examine a wide range of religions online through both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. The Abrahamic traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as Hinduism, Shinto, Taoism, Chinese traditions, animism, Japan’s New Religions,…
On the Edge: Cultural Barriers and Catalysts to IT Diffusion among Remote and Marginalized Communities
The articles collected here were chosen from papers presented at the second biannual conference on Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication, held in Perth, Australia, 13–16 July 2000. Collectively, the articles explore the social, political and cultural contexts that inhibit and/or encourage the appropriation of IT among cultural groups very much at the edges of Western cultural influence and communication infrastructures
Floridi's Philosophy of Information and Information Ethics: Current Perspectives, Future Directions
In order to evaluate Floridi's philosophy of information (PI) and correlative information ethics (IE) as potential frameworks for a global information and computing ethics (ICE), I review a range of important criticisms, defenses, and extensions of PI and IE, along with Floridi's responses to these, as gathered together in a recent special issue of Ethics and Information Technology. A revised and expanded version of PI and IE emerges here, one th…
Liberal Arts and Distance Education: Can Socratic virtue (areteØ) and Confucius’ exemplary person (junzi) be taught online
The goals of a global liberal arts education, as conjoining both western and eastern sources, focus on ‘virtue first’, i.e. on pursuing human excellence ( areteØ). To determine whether such excellence can be taught online, I turn to contemporary research on Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and online education. Among other factors, important cultural issues as well as the real costs of online education have moderated 1990s enthusiasm for onl…
Can we say anything ethical about Digital Religion? Philosophical and methodological considerations
Against the background of growing interest in normative frameworks within Media and Communication Studies and Internet Studies, I propose a virtue ethics framework for Digital Religion (DR). This framework conjoins loving as a virtue with consequent norms of equality and respect for persons. By understanding selfhood in terms of relational autonomy, this framework shares with DR a central focus on identity, community, and authority. Two applicati…
Ethics and the Media: An Introduction
I highlight important elements of the volume, its context in digital ethics more broadly, and contributions to both journalism ethics as such and digital ethics as an emerging field
Technologies of Despair and Hope: Liberatory Potentials and Practices of CMC in the Middle East
The first conference on Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication (CATaC) in 1998 was organized in response to a troubling recognition. On the one hand, contrary to the then-prevailing belief in technology as a value-free and culturally-neutral tool, it was becoming increasingly clear that cultural values and communication preferences played fundamental roles in the design, implementation, and responses to the technologies of comput…
Pietism and the Origins of the American Public Health Movement: A Note on John H. Griscom and Robert M. Hartley
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Cultural attitudes towards technology and communication: New directions of research in computer-mediated communication
On the Edge: Cultural Barriers and Catalysts to IT Diffusion among Remote and Marginalized Communities
The articles collected here were chosen from papers presented at the second biannual conference on Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication, held in Perth, Australia, 13–16 July 2000. Collectively, the articles explore the social, political and cultural contexts that inhibit and/or encourage the appropriation of IT among cultural groups very much at the edges of Western cultural influence and communication infrastructures
Liberal Arts and Distance Education: Can Socratic virtue (areteØ) and Confucius’ exemplary person (junzi) be taught online
The goals of a global liberal arts education, as conjoining both western and eastern sources, focus on ‘virtue first’, i.e. on pursuing human excellence ( areteØ). To determine whether such excellence can be taught online, I turn to contemporary research on Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and online education. Among other factors, important cultural issues as well as the real costs of online education have moderated 1990s enthusiasm for onl…
Culture and Computer-Mediated Communication: Toward New Understandings
This collection of articles was originally inspired by several presentations at CATaC'041 and subsequent critical discussion of their use of the frameworks for cultural analyses developed by Edward T. Hall (1966, 1976) and Gert Hofstede (e.g., 1980, 1991). In response to these presentations and discussion, we developed this special thematic section for the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Technologies of Despair and Hope: Liberatory Potentials and Practices of CMC in the Middle East
The first conference on Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication (CATaC) in 1998 was organized in response to a troubling recognition. On the one hand, contrary to the then-prevailing belief in technology as a value-free and culturally-neutral tool, it was becoming increasingly clear that cultural values and communication preferences played fundamental roles in the design, implementation, and responses to the technologies of comput…
Information Technology Ethics: Cultural Perspectives
"This book is the first publication that takes a genuinely global approach to the diverse ethical issues evoked by Information and Communication Technologies and their possible resolutions. Readers will gain a greater appreciation for the problems and possibilities of genuinely global information ethics, which are urgently needed as information and communication technologies continue their exponential growth"--Provided by publisher
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Religion and Computer-Mediated Communication
Previous research on religion and CMC has focused primarily on Christianity and the Western world. The articles collected in this special theme section of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication examine a wide range of religions online through both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. The Abrahamic traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as Hinduism, Shinto, Taoism, Chinese traditions, animism, Japan’s New Religions,…
Internet research ethics and the institutional review board: Current Practices and Issues
The Internet has been used as a place for and site of an array of research activities. From online ethnographies to public data sets and online surveys, researchers and research regulators have struggled with an array of ethical issues around the conduct of online research. This paper presents a discussion and findings from Buchanan and Ess's study on US-based institutional review boards and the state of internet research ethics
Floridi's Philosophy of Information and Information Ethics: Current Perspectives, Future Directions
In order to evaluate Floridi's philosophy of information (PI) and correlative information ethics (IE) as potential frameworks for a global information and computing ethics (ICE), I review a range of important criticisms, defenses, and extensions of PI and IE, along with Floridi's responses to these, as gathered together in a recent special issue of Ethics and Information Technology. A revised and expanded version of PI and IE emerges here, one th…
Trust and New Communication Technologies: Vicious Circles, Virtuous Circles, Possible Futures
Trust and virtual worlds: Contemporary perspectives
We collect diverse philosophical analyses of the issues and problems clustering around trust online with specific attention to establishing trust in virtual environments. The book moves forward important discussions of how virtual worlds and virtuality are to be defined and understood; the role of embodiment in establishing trust in (primarily) disembodied venues; how far artificial agents and other forms of machine intelligence can be trusted in…
At the Intersections Between Internet Studies and Philosophy: “Who Am I Online?”
Internet Studies: Perspectives on a rapidly developing field
The genealogy of this special issue begins in the fall of 2009, with a panel organized by Mia Consalvo and Charles Ess for the annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 8 October. The panel was constituted by a selected set of contributors to The Handbook of Internet Studies (Consalvo and Ess, 2011). The presentations and ensuing discussion, joined by contributors to another synthesis effo…
Ethics and the Media: An Introduction
I highlight important elements of the volume, its context in digital ethics more broadly, and contributions to both journalism ethics as such and digital ethics as an emerging field
Special Issue of IJSR on Social Robots: Form, Content, Critique
The Onlife Initiative—a Concept Reengineering Exercise
Internet Research Ethics
This anthology addresses ethical challenges that arise within the field of Internet research. Among the issues discussed in the book are the following: When is voluntary informed consent from research subjects required in using the Internet as a data source? How may researchers secure the privacy of research subjects in a landscape where the traditional public/private distinction is blurred and re-identification is a recurring threat? What are th…
Internet Research Ethics
This anthology addresses ethical challenges that arise within the field of Internet research. Among the issues discussed in the book are the following: When is voluntary informed consent from research subjects required in using the Internet as a data source? How may researchers secure the privacy of research subjects in a landscape where the traditional public/private distinction is blurred and re-identification is a recurring threat? What are th…
Can we say anything ethical about Digital Religion? Philosophical and methodological considerations
Against the background of growing interest in normative frameworks within Media and Communication Studies and Internet Studies, I propose a virtue ethics framework for Digital Religion (DR). This framework conjoins loving as a virtue with consequent norms of equality and respect for persons. By understanding selfhood in terms of relational autonomy, this framework shares with DR a central focus on identity, community, and authority. Two applicati…
Digital Media Ethics
Since the early 2000s, Digital Media Ethics (DME) has emerged as a relatively stable subdomain of applied ethics. DME seeks nothing less than to address the ethical issues evoked by computing technologies and digital media more broadly, such as cameras, mobile and smartphones, GPS navigation systems, biometric health monitoring devices, and, eventually, “the Internet of things,” as these have developed and diffused into more or less every corner …
Communication and technology
I introduce this double issue, showing first how the articles conjoin global perspectives with fine-grained attention to specific communication venues vis-à-vis critical theory, politics, religion, children and youth, mobile technologies, and ICT4D. Our contributors further argue against technological determinism in multiple ways, offering instead far more sophisticated understandings of how technology, material factors, and diverse ethical, soci…
Theoretical and Practical Research Ethics: Three Cases
AoIR and the Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society (JICES) share common interests in critical reflection on the ethical and social dimensions of the internet and internet-facilitated communication, and have begun a collaboration aimed at collecting ethically-focused AoIR conference submissions for presentation and critique at AoIR, with a view towards subsequent publication in a special issue of JICES. This panel collects th…
Legal and Ethical Perspectives on (Big) Data, Platforms, Ai and Algorithms
AoIR and the Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society (JICES) share common interests in critical reflection on the ethical and social dimensions of the internet and internet-facilitated communication, and have begun a collaboration aimed at collecting ethically-focused AoIR conference submissions for presentation and critique at AoIR, with a view towards subsequent publication in a special issue of JICES. This panel collects fo…
The University of We: Value-Sensitive Design for an Ethical University
In this article, the authors propose the ethical university may be manifested as the University of We: a university of character and care. We define the ethical university as a “value-sensitive design” that encapsulates and promotes certain virtues, values, habits of mind and practices while prohibiting and suppressing others. By combining value-sensitive design, with Aristotelian phronēsis, care ethics and the ethical demand of K.E. Løgstrup, we…
Sociology (28 works) · Computer Science (18 works) · Political science (16 works) · Epistemology (13 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Engineering ethics (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · The Internet (10 works) · World Wide Web (10 works)